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Directory Size Problem

Torchizard

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    • Seen Oct 10, 2011

    There is a problem with one of the directories on my hard drive in Windows Xp, When I was recovering off a accidentally Formatted hard drive, all of the files went into a single directory and now whenever I try to go into the Directory, Windows Explorer just freezes. So I was wondering if there was a effective way of (example: Splitting the folder contents into parts) without having to go through the whole recovery process again?
     

    Archer

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    • Torchizard said:

    There is a problem with one of the directories on my hard drive in Windows Xp, When I was recovering off a accidentally Formatted hard drive, all of the files went into a single directory and now whenever I try to go into the Directory, Windows Explorer just freezes. So I was wondering if there was a effective way of (example: Splitting the folder contents into parts) without having to go through the whole recovery process again?
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    Is your current drive formatted as FAT16/32, as far as you are aware?
     

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    • Torchizard said:
    If you mean my current PC hard drive, it is NTFS but the recovered hard drive was FAT32 and after the format it is also NTFS.
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    Nevermind, I was checking, as FAT can have file/directory size limits, etc. They're rarely a problem since FAT16, but it was worth a shot.

    I'd be inclined to boot off a Linux liveCD and split the files that way.
     
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